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cal thomas, syndicated columnist. both are fox news contributors. doug, the president's campaign slogan is forward. is that because he doesn't want voters looking back at things like solyndra? >> he would rather look back to george w. bush. i suspect we'll be hearing a lot about him, rather than looking at a record that is very tough for the president to run on. look, he did stablize the economy. it is not really fair to blame him for the economic woes we're facing now entirely he is he is isly since we're heading towards another few months of job growth and diminution of our employment problem. but bottom line, it is fair to say, jon, the president's economic record is open to criticism and criticism we're getting. jon: all right. that's what republicans and mitt romney in particular are hoping to point out, right, call? >> right, jon. look, i think that romney's campaign commercials are very effective in the early days of the general campaign because they simply pit the president against himself. many of them shown i've seen here in the washington
cal thomas, syndicated columnist. both are fox news contributors. doug, the president's campaign slogan is forward. is that because he doesn't want voters looking back at things like solyndra? >> he would rather look back to george w. bush. i suspect we'll be hearing a lot about him, rather than looking at a record that is very tough for the president to run on. look, he did stablize the economy. it is not really fair to blame him for the economic woes we're facing now entirely he is he...
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cal tomorrow as is a syndicated column news. all of them are fox news contributors. cal, your most egregious examples of post-election media celebration. >> we don't have enough time. that's why we had the news watch show for a whole hour that everybody should watch 3pm on saturday. how is that for an unsolicited plug. the media set the parameters. gas prices twice as much when george w. bush left office. when bush was still in office the media were at gas stations all over the country and telling stories about how people could hardly afford to fill their tank. the homeless, they only exist when a republican is in the house. once in a while in the media pays attention to them it's all george bush's fault. this president is inc is inheriting a material economy from the last present, that is himself. will they blame him? i don't think so. they'll blame a republican house if they stand up for their principles against more spending and higher taxes. jon: "newsweek" won't be having many more covers. they are going to an online only magazine. here is the "newsweek" cover,
cal tomorrow as is a syndicated column news. all of them are fox news contributors. cal, your most egregious examples of post-election media celebration. >> we don't have enough time. that's why we had the news watch show for a whole hour that everybody should watch 3pm on saturday. how is that for an unsolicited plug. the media set the parameters. gas prices twice as much when george w. bush left office. when bush was still in office the media were at gas stations all over the country...
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cal thomas, judith miller. good to have you both. join our panelists and me for "fox news watch" this weekend. we'll talk more about the media cover the parties conventions and the race for the white house. saturday afternoon, 2:30 eastern time. jenna: jon, back to the live situation going on on in denver. we're hearing more reports that more shots were fired at a radioshack where a gunman apparently, there is mixed reports at this time has hostages. denver police say four schools in the area are on lockdown. this is glenco street in the middle of denver, right in the middle of the city. we hear the two suspected gunmen blasted out the front door of the radioshack with a shotgun and began firing on police. this is the live scene right now. we'll be right back with more breaking information out of denver today. ♪ [ malennouncer ] the first look...is only the beginning. ♪ ♪ introducing a stunning work of technology. ♪ introducing the entirely new lexus es. and the first ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. stop! s
cal thomas, judith miller. good to have you both. join our panelists and me for "fox news watch" this weekend. we'll talk more about the media cover the parties conventions and the race for the white house. saturday afternoon, 2:30 eastern time. jenna: jon, back to the live situation going on on in denver. we're hearing more reports that more shots were fired at a radioshack where a gunman apparently, there is mixed reports at this time has hostages. denver police say four schools in...
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cal is right. only gets you so far. worked in south carolina among white men who love the idea that the media is the enemy. attacked juan williams and juan doesn't understand work after the conflagration they had at the previous debate. he attacked dave briggs and clayton morris on fox an friends over the weekend. it worked very well for him obviously. but i think he has to move beyond that at some point which he is capable of doing. the question is he disciplined enough to realize at some point you have to leave that behind and really focus on the issues? jon: cal, would you agree the assessment is that a lot of republican voters are looking for someone who will take on barack obama and they're imagining what the debates will look like eventually this fall when the republicans do come up with a nominee. a lot of people seem to think that bulldog newt will be the best debater. >> right. i just written about this. i think we've come a long way in the traditional values group from requiring somebody to be the husband of o
cal is right. only gets you so far. worked in south carolina among white men who love the idea that the media is the enemy. attacked juan williams and juan doesn't understand work after the conflagration they had at the previous debate. he attacked dave briggs and clayton morris on fox an friends over the weekend. it worked very well for him obviously. but i think he has to move beyond that at some point which he is capable of doing. the question is he disciplined enough to realize at some...
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cal ripken, jr.'s mom, 74-year-old vi ripken, is now home safe. she was kidnapped at gunpoint, tied up and blindfolded and apparently driven around in her car by the gunman only to be found 24 hours later near her home outside of baltimore. she says she doesn't belief her abductor knew she was part of a bass ball family. rick leventhal from the new york city newsroom. >> reporter: he apparently wanted money and a car but had no idea how valuable his hostage was. early tuesday morning a 74 man with a gun bound her hands and feet with duct tape, put some kind of mask on her and drove her around central maryland for almost 24 hours. then parked near her home. got out of the car and walked away. police apparently learned of the abduction when a witness spotted vi tied up in the back seat of a lincoln continental at a gas station some 13 hours of after she was taken. >> a guy saw her tied up, her hands. she said why is she tied up and she said it's my mother and she has alzheimer's and we have to keep her under lock and key because she wanders off. he
cal ripken, jr.'s mom, 74-year-old vi ripken, is now home safe. she was kidnapped at gunpoint, tied up and blindfolded and apparently driven around in her car by the gunman only to be found 24 hours later near her home outside of baltimore. she says she doesn't belief her abductor knew she was part of a bass ball family. rick leventhal from the new york city newsroom. >> reporter: he apparently wanted money and a car but had no idea how valuable his hostage was. early tuesday morning a 74...
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jenna: well, baseball legend cal ripken, jr. is speaking out today about his mother's abduction. 74-year-old vi ripken was taken at gunpoint last week. she was found safe the next day. ripken says the experience has been traumatic for the entire family, but his mom is getting back to a normal life. >> my mom has gone to her granddaughter's softball game, she's gone to the iron birds games, she's continued to live her life, she's going to the beauty parlor n ways that she wants to. she refuses to let that effect it to that point. but, you know, from a mental traumatic stand point, you know, she's, she's still a little shaky, and we're all a little shaky. -and-a-half pennsylvania a little scary and a little strange, this story. molly henneberg's live from d.c. with more. molly? >> reporter: this case is a bit of a mystery, mainly because authorities don't know what this guy's motive was, why he abducted vi ripken from his home. he made no demands and, thankfully, returned her unharmed -- at least physically -- the next day. aberde
jenna: well, baseball legend cal ripken, jr. is speaking out today about his mother's abduction. 74-year-old vi ripken was taken at gunpoint last week. she was found safe the next day. ripken says the experience has been traumatic for the entire family, but his mom is getting back to a normal life. >> my mom has gone to her granddaughter's softball game, she's gone to the iron birds games, she's continued to live her life, she's going to the beauty parlor n ways that she wants to. she...
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you were actually at the convention, cal -- >> i was there all week. jon: all right. so give us your take on the coverage you read versus the convention you attended. >> the media, i think, actually did mitt romney a favor. they set the bar very low, and whether it's in sports or in politics, if you set the bar low and have low expectations, if the guy exceeds them, then the story becomes, wow, he was really great, and that's what a lot of the story was today. jon: you're suggesting that they didn't want him to succeed or they didn't think he could? >> well, no. look, my favorite scene, i walked into "the new york times" tent just so i could see what the other side was doing, and there was a big side taken from the media research center, don't believe the liberal media. now, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then mockery tells the truth about "the new york times." all the conversations we saw with the yahoo guy that they really hate republicans, they don't want them elected, and the coverage at least from the mainstream media mostly reflected that, i thi
you were actually at the convention, cal -- >> i was there all week. jon: all right. so give us your take on the coverage you read versus the convention you attended. >> the media, i think, actually did mitt romney a favor. they set the bar very low, and whether it's in sports or in politics, if you set the bar low and have low expectations, if the guy exceeds them, then the story becomes, wow, he was really great, and that's what a lot of the story was today. jon: you're suggesting...
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i agree with our very own cal thomas, let's have ex-presidents moderate the debate. jon: interesting. ellen ratner, and jim pinkerton, thank you. jenna: we have candidates scoring points and giving zingers, but are we getting the big picture how the presidency of either man would look like? what our country would look like over the next four years. we're going to ask that big question just ahead. >>> what's next as well for lance armstrong as he steps down as chairman of his canner charity and a big, big name in sports cuts him loose? ring is on the story next jenna: both candidates last night hoping to win voters in a debate filled with a lot of heated exchanges but are we, the voters, winning? are we really learning enough from either man? a question raised by the editorial boards of two major newspapers in our country today, "the new york times" had this to say about the president. quote, what he did not do was describe how a second term would be more successful than his first has been and in particular show how he would cut through the thicket of republican oppos
i agree with our very own cal thomas, let's have ex-presidents moderate the debate. jon: interesting. ellen ratner, and jim pinkerton, thank you. jenna: we have candidates scoring points and giving zingers, but are we getting the big picture how the presidency of either man would look like? what our country would look like over the next four years. we're going to ask that big question just ahead. >>> what's next as well for lance armstrong as he steps down as chairman of his canner...
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>> call fire has a long -- cal fire has a long history with the national guard. they train their helicopter pilots to join us in the firefight. we're using a number of their helicopters. also their c-130s as their air tankers. everything we can to hit the fires. 9,000 firefighters from the state and local and federal agencies to help battle these fires. that is what it takes when we have so many fires burning at one time. uma: massive undertaking indeed. i understand the governor has a vacation home in that same area? >> i'm not aware of that. i can tell you there are some homes throughout that area and so many residents, you know, no matter how many people there are we take it seriousry. we want to make sure we get the firefighters in there to protect these homes. unfortunately it was a very fast-moving wildfire. it was able to do a lot of destruction in its path. uma: our hearts go out to all the folks affected out there. good luck containing the blaze. thanks for joining us today. >> thank you. jon: with wildfires burning all across the west and a brand new ad
>> call fire has a long -- cal fire has a long history with the national guard. they train their helicopter pilots to join us in the firefight. we're using a number of their helicopters. also their c-130s as their air tankers. everything we can to hit the fires. 9,000 firefighters from the state and local and federal agencies to help battle these fires. that is what it takes when we have so many fires burning at one time. uma: massive undertaking indeed. i understand the governor has a...
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we know that cal osha is on scene, the epa is investigating. but you talked about that fire that we had yesterday, and one of the big issues still a big concern is safety. what happened after that monday fire is that they got that under control, and they had a small fire burning, really just to burn off any excess oil they could in the main crude oil unit for this facility. that was down to what they described as a basketball-sized fire. then yesterday a pipe that was damaged in the original fire started leaking, started a secondary fire, and that caused that secondary response. what that does is highlight the damage that is to this unit, damage they're still trying to assess and figure out. and so they said they can't even get investigators in until they make sure that the entire area is safe, and that's still being done. so in terms of time frame to get in there to figure out how significant the damage is and how long repairs are going to take, we don't know, but that could take months. how that will effect the oil supply, well, this refinery
we know that cal osha is on scene, the epa is investigating. but you talked about that fire that we had yesterday, and one of the big issues still a big concern is safety. what happened after that monday fire is that they got that under control, and they had a small fire burning, really just to burn off any excess oil they could in the main crude oil unit for this facility. that was down to what they described as a basketball-sized fire. then yesterday a pipe that was damaged in the original...
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this was a restore cal game changa rhetorical game changer. jon: a lot of people thought it was possible that ron paul might even win maine. i came fairly close. he came in second and has yet to win a state. >> reporter: the paul people will point out that in the end they are going to get more delegates because this is in the weeds, but the dill gat a portionment, how it's awarded is through a series of contest, county, precinct county, statewide and then appointing the delegates for the state to the national convention, and they believe that there are people who are loyal to them and they will stick with them throughout, no matter what the contest shows. the big contest, jon, arizona and michigan. it's hard to overstate the importance of those states for the mitt romney campaign. in michigan there are two new polls out, ppp and arg that have rick santorum leading currently. if that sticks that is a huge, huge deal. jon: right, that's the question i was going to ask you. it appears to the santorum campaign is setting its sights on michigan and
this was a restore cal game changa rhetorical game changer. jon: a lot of people thought it was possible that ron paul might even win maine. i came fairly close. he came in second and has yet to win a state. >> reporter: the paul people will point out that in the end they are going to get more delegates because this is in the weeds, but the dill gat a portionment, how it's awarded is through a series of contest, county, precinct county, statewide and then appointing the delegates for the...
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the shooters as you mentioned mechanics cal federal police officers. now reports that investigators believe the shooting may have been a targeted assassination attempt by officers loyal to one of mexico's brutal drug cartels. a u.s. official telling the "associated press" that the evidence is, quote, pretty dam strong, that the officers that shot at the u.s. embassy vehicle were tied to organized crime. mexico, of course, a very important u.s. ally so obviously there is a lot of sensitivity regarding this. the state department not commenting publicly. the mexican government says it is cooperating, working with the f.b.i. who is leading the investigation. 12 mexican officers have been detained, they are being held on house arrest. this was the third time in the last two years, jenna, that american personnel have been targeted and shot in mexico. as we get more we'll pass it along to you. jenna: what a story, rick, thank you. gregg: tonight's presidential debate in denver is putting a key swing state squarely in the spotlight. president obama holds a sli
the shooters as you mentioned mechanics cal federal police officers. now reports that investigators believe the shooting may have been a targeted assassination attempt by officers loyal to one of mexico's brutal drug cartels. a u.s. official telling the "associated press" that the evidence is, quote, pretty dam strong, that the officers that shot at the u.s. embassy vehicle were tied to organized crime. mexico, of course, a very important u.s. ally so obviously there is a lot of...
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voters showing a very tight race, the president leading governor romney by 2 points, a sta advertise ta cal high. bret baier will be live at a particular suburb, a major battleground suburb, and bret baier is joining us now. let's talk about the timing of this. they say international issues won't be a part of this debate but you have the romney campaign publishing this editorial today which is all about foreign policy. what do you make of the timing? >> well, sure, i mean this issue is clearly on the informan front burner because all of the news coverage now finally because of the libya situation and how it was handled from the very beginning. that, obviously, has not subsided yet and you have the concerns about iran and the president not meeting with world leaders at the united nations fresh in people's minds. and i think the romney campaign wanted to get involved in that with this opinion editorial and we are hearing that a speech is in the works. but john is right, this debate is about domestic policy, this debate is about the economy. and gym lehrer, the moderator will focus on that, an
voters showing a very tight race, the president leading governor romney by 2 points, a sta advertise ta cal high. bret baier will be live at a particular suburb, a major battleground suburb, and bret baier is joining us now. let's talk about the timing of this. they say international issues won't be a part of this debate but you have the romney campaign publishing this editorial today which is all about foreign policy. what do you make of the timing? >> well, sure, i mean this issue is...